My camera malfunctioned and I don't have a vid of this. Really hurts but at least Rudy has a recording of it to share with everyone! Thanks for watching!
@@canadian4life796 gloves don’t really matter if your hands are clean and dry you get a better feel from no gloves thus less chance of damaging the edges holding it
The person flipping the cards for the camera is so concerned, that they have surgical gloves on, yet the man with the sleeves used their bare fingers 😄 Fun opening :)
@@brokengames9020 I mean You're right about the effects of a healthy gut, aswell as the idiocity of ad hominem "arguments". However You're overlooking one thing, which is peoples individual drives in life. Yes, if you want to be healthy, treating your gut well is a good idea. But if you just wanna enjoy yourself with card games instead of physical pristine, paying money for old MTG cards is also a good idea. The prices may not be proportional nor adequate for you, but they may very well for others.
This video was nostalgic and also made me feel a little sad. If only I had the foresight to hold onto these when I was young. So many of these brought back memories I haven't thought of in decades.
if you have freshly washed hands it is actually better. Power 9 quest explained that in several videos, and he got that wisdom from people working in museums working on old books and documents. What destroys cards is the oil on the hands, but freshly washed there is none, and you can handle the cards more gently without gloves.
I remember playing a sealed tournament way back then. One guy opened a pack with no lands. All the lands were replaced with rares. So he turned it in for another pack. Terrifying to think how much that would be worth today :)
I missed the ABU era of MTG by 6 months. I barely missed the last box of the Dark for sale. But I was offered a Lotus for $40 (Unlimited) and I remember dual lands commonly for sale for $10-12 each. Alphas were trash cause we had no black back sleeves for years, so they were unplayable cause corners, so Betas were worth more as Alphas were just for collecting and not many ONLY collected. I was also offered a HP Beta Lotus for $80 at some point. Also turned that down cause was 16 and money was tight and it was a cardboard game.
@@Simonk_6 maybe by you, but in the summer of 1993 a Keldon Warlord was worth more than a Lotus. I remember most rares including the Lotus was $5 ea. Duals were like $2 and the Lord of the Pit, Fork and Shivan Dragon was $10!
@@carenthusiast9255 haven't been to Rudy's basement. I know he does have sealed antiquities and forward. I know he mentioned not being able to get those boxes and he's never showed 1 on the channel that he acquired like he's done with antiquities, urza saga, the dark, legends boxes.
My brother worked at a comic book shop years ago. He had a ton of these boxes and packs. I have a shoebox of these unopened boxes of cards. How can a box be worth $100,000 ? Who is buying ? I can sell 20 tonight ? But that’s what they are worth or what someone will pay ?
I think back to the mid 90's and I remember opening my very first MtG 4th Edition starter pack. The look of those old boxes just conjure a whole lot of memories.
The gems, the gem bags, the hopes for some northern paladins or nightmare's to match pics... I snagged a Shivan Drg in mine and later traded it for a mill falcon in the star wars ccg.... aaaah regrets
@@Manysdugjohn That's literally exactly what the person you replied to said... "barely contain himself" means he is attempting to conceal his clear excitement.
@@Manysdugjohn unlessone day someone be like "whatcha guys watching.... oh wait. those look familiar. yeah my old man got 4 of those stored in basement and sealed up. last saw them few months ago. (everyone im the room goes silent, turns to him and gives a dead ass for real look at him) ....what? did i say something illegal?" whcih there is a chance there is probably someone out there maybe got 5+ boxes of those stored somewhere sealed up.
Some people have slot machines, other have Magic the Gathering. Opening a pack worth 100 000 dollars and then picking cards that doesnt even amount to half of what was payed...great investments.
Rudy's face when he realized that Alpha starter is worth 100 Gs and the thought in his mind that he have a whole safe of them in 5th level basement of his 4th house/warehouse :D and there's one less in the wild after this video - PRICELESS !!!
Us 80's kids who played in the early 90's die a little bit when we realize we should of got a safe full of cards and retired on an island 30 years later.
I feel ya. I probably bought about 1k dolalrs worth of magic cards when the game first came out. Have no idea what age i partered ways with them. Its a shame. I remember having a Grinning Totem back in the day and remember that card being talked abotu a lot
I remember buying this pack brand-new at my friend's father's card shop during the summer they released. Im still searching for the 3 unopened packs I had😣.
@@aritzmartinezrodriguez1825 Didn't say they were going to be 100K, I was obviously pointing out how ridiculous it is to say that they are worth 5K. So thanks for adding nothing.
@@moreplease394 He used to be foul mouthed and a bit... lets call it... different, but his recent content is really good. He also went through a major event in his life that changed him for the better. Give his new content a try and you will see
I started playing Magic mid-1994 and there was no alpha, beta or unlimited packs available to buy anywhere anymore, only revised. It's amazing that those can still be found sealed up to this day.
I remember dreaming of having a black lotus alpha because it was like $350 in the magazine, mox emerald ruby etc were like 125 or something. I actually bought an alpha mox emerald at a card shop for a few hundred dollars, then when I moved to Thailand I sold all my cards for like $1000, God was I stupid, I had a handful of alpha and beta cards and a bunch of dark edition I think it was called. Never thought these things would still be around. What can we buy now that will be worth millions or thousands in 40 years? I'm stocking up
@@bradcruise6291 that's normal. I had a full set of dual islands and I sold for like $20 each back in 1999. Magic could be dead today and those cards would be worth nothing, but the game survived even the boom of the internet. Nobody can predict the future, if we could we would buy bitcoin 15 years ago...
Even the worst cards in an Alpha pack are worth about $30-40 as collectors items. I think the most valuable card they opened here was Illusionary Mask which goes for maybe $1,500. They definitely lost money by opening this pack. They did not open any of the really top cards. (They highly exaggerated how much value the centering adds to these cards, because there are not that many people willing to pay a premium for a rated 10 quality card that isn't a top rare.)
@@grinja73 I'm guessing by the time he's 50 he could easily cash out a portion of his collection and it would be an 8 figure payday. Maybe he will pass the rest onto his kids.
@@mrpyro07 I’m thinking 7 figures but yeah its still a lot. Who knows, maybe nerdboys will move on to other things and the value will peak and go down in a decade or so
This makes me sick to think of what I used to have and sold for nothing. Moxes, Arabian nights, Legends, allot from BETA/unlimited, 3 sets of revised, 2 sets of Dark, a stack of multi lands 4 inches high, God knows what it would be worth ugh I'm naseaous
@@AGVenge sorry man, I estimated mine about 150k. Oh well it's just money. I tried jumping back in around the Urzas and that was fun but all I could think about was how much the cards kept going up and up and up in value.
Thanks Rudy for catching these always rare openings on video. I show my brother and he loves them as he grew up on alpha and beta and got me into the game years after he quit still with some of these cards! Love it!
I don’t play magic, never have but I know where to give credit when it’s due. The original magic cards are insane and the massive price tag just shows how coveted they are. Look at this man’s hand shake. I can’t imagine how nervous he was. The suspense 😭
Funny I still have 4 original boxes with the instructions plus all of the cards that came in them, they have been used but still in great shape, I was never rough on cards. Seen quite a few cards they were cheering about in my old collection plus a lot they didn't draw. I remember when the Shivan Dragon was everyone's Holy Grail and I had 2 lol.
@@sagesmukler9383 Incredibly, you are right, the laces are more expensive than the animate wall at this point. At least animate Wall was not printed in Revised so it feels more special.
I love how you went through the extra effort of wearing non-powdered vinyl gloves and then immediately handed each card to a guy with no gloves to sleeve them. Big brain stuff right there!
If i could go back in time I'd be selling a deck worth a '21 shelby and a fun night out on the vegas strip for a night. It's amazing we get to watch this be opened, thank you alpha.
Me to my 5 year old son: "hey buddy, check these out, now you can have just one, they're very special so be caref...." "Cool, thanks dad" as he folds it up and puts it in his top pocket. 🥺
I got started in the game during Beta while working in a hobby shop that started carrying the game. I was in High School at the time. In 2001, when my first wife and I got divorced, my entire MtG collection mysteriously disappeared when she left the house - at the time my book value was over $5,000. A small binder of each color plus another for artifacts and another for rare lands. I hadn't played in a couple of years prior to that - mostly made up of my cards from when I started playing.
Random video… I had tons of these cards when I was a kid. I didn’t play magic, I just enjoyed the artwork and the collecting aspect of it. I will never understand why anyone would pay so much money for something so trivial and functionally useless, but I appreciate the enthusiasm and I enjoyed reliving the experience of opening these starter packs. Good memories! My younger brother has most of my old cards now, and I gave a bunch of them away to friends too after I lost interest. This was damn near 30 years ago, and I kind of sharted a bit hearing how much they’re worth now. My 35 year old younger brother still plays regularly and has many shoeboxes full of these cards now.
Man, watching these hurts my soul. I had so many of these cards back when they came out, but I was young and didn't really care. Sold easily a thousand cards for about $20 to a friend when I decided to quit playing. One of those life decisions that my younger self could not comprehend. Let alone knowing they'd be around and sought after decades later.
Ultimately you did the right thing. Holding on to old stuff because it _might_ become valuable to collectors is insane and leads to dying alone surrounded by cobwebbed beanie babies and precious moments figurines. Selling off old toys and shedding the cruft is good for your well-being. For every black lotus card there are a million worthless things people hold on to.
I think every mtg player thinks the same about it, I started in 2000 and think that could have gotten some cards in that moment that right now really far.
@@mro4ts457 They bought that pack when it was released for the original price, Since it's an old pack in mint condition it's now worth 100,000. It's not click bait because it still true that the pack is worth 100,000. They just didn't spend 100,000 to buy the pack.
@@PoggerChamp-jt8dp You're right that it's not clickbait, because the deck has sold for $96,000, but they do sort of gloss over that that's not what they paid for the pack. They're also also well connected enough in the industry to know Heritage Auctions is not the most trustworthy of sources on prices that the average person could actually get.
Good luck getting these graded right now! Beckett: " yeah, so maybe, eventually, one day... next year... we'll get around to your cards. Or.... You could give us a grand to think about putting them in this year's stack"
Your excitement and enthusiasm is so palpable, a real joy to witness! It hurt the soul when you pulled the lands out of this expensive pack since each land would have cost $1666
Kind of hard to watch for those of us who used to buy/sell MTG 10+ years ago. $2,000+ for graded Alpha Bolt??? I had a perfect Alpha Howling Mine, sold it for $80, over $2,000 now graded??? I had Power 9, everything else! Congrats to all who kept. Beautiful cards. Nothing beats these old artworks. Stuff now is so cartoony.
Same man. I sold the bulk of my collection in 2008 to pay bills. I sold my signed unlimited lotus for $700 and thought it was good money! I got $300-500 per mox and like $250 for my mint condition timetwister. I also had over 100 dual lands. Those cards could buy me a really nice house today if I had kept them!!!
9:47 - 9:51 makes me kick myself even harder because I once had an Alpha Island - like 10 years ago, I was holding it and kinda flicking it in my hand at a train station when an Amtrak train thundered by and blew it out of my hand.
Listening to Rudy moan is just great. He knows the value of sealed product and that it's a finite resource, especially something like this. In his mind he just saw tens of thousands of dollars being burned the second the seal was busted. Cheer up though Rudy. You have to own at least one of those starter packs, so you're just became more valuable because there's one less now. This is alot of fun though. Collector box openings are cool and all but this is a treat.
@@jasonluther3567 I did not know that. I started with The Dark/Revised and stopped playing around the time of Torment. I wasn't buying much Core Set after 6th ("Classic") Edition. I started playing again when Arena came out
"yeah we can't grade this a 10 because of the almost invisible fingerprints".... Smh. It doesn't change the value of the card at all my guy. The condition wasn't changed.
To be fair, it's more important for the one holding the deck to be wearing gloves if only one of the two were to wear them. Doesn't make a big difference probably, but holding a deck closely in your hand while excited and nervous about the openening over several minutes could make your hands slightly sweaty, which could effect the cards on the bottom or their edges that you are holding.
I mean, I can tell they're old, simple cards, which means they're long out of print and all, but this channel and this video seem to be more about $$$$ than the game.
awesome video! don't know why I really like watching these alpha openings. i don't even really know how to play Magic, but damn that artwork is amazing on those cards! i feel like if those were blown up paintings, they would sell for a fortune by themselves. very cool
Rudy's face after realising that he has around 1,000 of them hanging around in his 6th mansion that he doesn't even rent out but lets his pet Dodo birds roam in.
My camera malfunctioned and I don't have a vid of this. Really hurts but at least Rudy has a recording of it to share with everyone! Thanks for watching!
I'm sorry bro :(
thank you for the ride!
any idea what kind of melon candle that is? thanks!
Crazy
omg at least someone else was recording. that could have been devastating
Wearing gloves and passing the cards to someone without gloves. Hell yeah.
With a full dam box of gloves next to him🤣🤣🤣🤣 some people are just morons
I was thinking the same thing lmao!
@@canadian4life796 gloves don’t really matter if your hands are clean and dry you get a better feel from no gloves thus less chance of damaging the edges holding it
@@c.j.t7269 don't americans always have gressy hands from going to Mc Donalds all the time?
@@DrCrypto-ash yeah, but also from working more than 3 hours a day.
I just started playing MTG, bought my first commander pack yesterday, and I opened that deck more carefully than this guy did this one.
🤣
@@leeburchfield3266 Yeah he handles the cards like they are trash
The way he used that scalpel was heartbreaking
and completely unnecessary
and he wondered why the corner was messed up.
@@calebross8174 fr it was eh? i was like this dudes being a little rough with this lol. im not even a card collector and i know better than that.
It's a pretty common way to open starter decks since the rulebook is really thick and easily catches the scalpel. Not heartbreaking at all.
Title should also read “how to turn $100k into $20k in 10 minutes.”
Its like buying high valued tech stocks 3 months ago.
@@99cya Not really
in this pack could have been more value or not. its a lottery. a high tech sock isnt.
Not a good solution.
@@Brise215 agreed.
Lets say 5k at best.
Good luck trying to get more with those cards, without a single P9 or dual land, lmao.
@@Brise215 The only way you make money on this is if you open a lotus. Most tech stocks have better odds at a positive ROI.
For a pack worth 100K, homie was using that blade like a line cook at Denny's
Seriously i thought i was the only thinking that!!!
and shaking like Michael J Fox :O
@@angeloescandon4106 I almost lost a kidney cringing so hard.
Not only the knife work but him trying to get the plastic off... I'm like come on man...
I was also bothered by the fact that the guy applying the sleeves wasn't wearing gloves.
The person flipping the cards for the camera is so concerned, that they have surgical gloves on, yet the man with the sleeves used their bare fingers 😄
Fun opening :)
Haha yeah, I guess he's holding the pack for a lot longer (and touching the card edges). My hands would be dripping if I was in his position lol
That's because the person with gloves owns the deck and the other people are just there for fun.. so they don't care. lol
That’s his schtick. He always open packs like that.
using penny sleeves and probably nicking every edge and corner, shame. should be one-touch magnet cases.
Yeah it makes me hurt inside
Ow, when people talk about garbage rares now I think about these Alpha/Beta/Unlimited openings and realize we have it pretty good now.
@@brokengames9020 k
@@brokengames9020 nice story, please touch grass
@@brokengames9020 scarcity can be artificially inflated. Demand is simply demand no matter what causes it.
@@brokengames9020 I mean You're right about the effects of a healthy gut, aswell as the idiocity of ad hominem "arguments".
However You're overlooking one thing, which is peoples individual drives in life.
Yes, if you want to be healthy, treating your gut well is a good idea.
But if you just wanna enjoy yourself with card games instead of physical pristine, paying money for old MTG cards is also a good idea.
The prices may not be proportional nor adequate for you, but they may very well for others.
This video was nostalgic and also made me feel a little sad. If only I had the foresight to hold onto these when I was young. So many of these brought back memories I haven't thought of in decades.
What year did these cards come out? Sometime in the early 90s or late 80s I'm guessing?
i love how the guy sleeving isn't wearing gloves that's legendary
I remember people used to make fun of openboosters for using the gloves. How far we've come.
seriously, my first thought. 100% SMH moment
I cringed every time he passed him a card.
right that bothered me tremendously
if you have freshly washed hands it is actually better. Power 9 quest explained that in several videos, and he got that wisdom from people working in museums working on old books and documents. What destroys cards is the oil on the hands, but freshly washed there is none, and you can handle the cards more gently without gloves.
Everyone should have gathered around and take a whiff of the freshly opened pack.
@@brokengames9020 I just like the smell of freshly opened cards :)
thats all very sniff my wife at the swinger party vibe.
@@mackenziepm I reckon they all roll around naked in the cards after the video ends :P
I always basked in that smell being 13 at the time it was associated with unspent lunch money but worth it.
I remember playing a sealed tournament way back then. One guy opened a pack with no lands. All the lands were replaced with rares. So he turned it in for another pack. Terrifying to think how much that would be worth today :)
Lands were worth more than Black Lotuses back then.
@@clanpsi no they were not lotus and moxen where still some of the most expensive cards around albeit only 20-50$
Buddy I had so many nightmares, Frankenstein monsters, segnir vampire, ebon praetor, elder dragons, all gone.......
I missed the ABU era of MTG by 6 months. I barely missed the last box of the Dark for sale.
But I was offered a Lotus for $40 (Unlimited) and I remember dual lands commonly for sale for $10-12 each.
Alphas were trash cause we had no black back sleeves for years, so they were unplayable cause corners, so Betas were worth more as Alphas were just for collecting and not many ONLY collected. I was also offered a HP Beta Lotus for $80 at some point. Also turned that down cause was 16 and money was tight and it was a cardboard game.
@@Simonk_6 maybe by you, but in the summer of 1993 a Keldon Warlord was worth more than a Lotus. I remember most rares including the Lotus was $5 ea. Duals were like $2 and the Lord of the Pit, Fork and Shivan Dragon was $10!
Magic cards now: It's shiny and wide
Magic cards then: IT'S IN THE MIDDLE
@@brokengames9020 why do you insist on thinking we give a shit what you have to say? 😕
@@brokengames9020 You should get out of the house more my dude.
@@brokengames9020 Not at all. Your 'argument' is one based in objective lunacy. So really the only subject to level a response towards is you.
@@brokengames9020 Take your meds schizo.
Pokemon cards now: it’s one card on four pieces.
1:00 rudy counting how many he has hidden away and doing some quick math
Lmao so true!
I really do wonder how many of these he has, if any.
@@phothewin6019 none. Opened them all back in 2008-2010 and sent them for grading.
@@carenthusiast9255 haven't been to Rudy's basement. I know he does have sealed antiquities and forward. I know he mentioned not being able to get those boxes and he's never showed 1 on the channel that he acquired like he's done with antiquities, urza saga, the dark, legends boxes.
More like how many did i crack open
Every aggressive card flip made me flinch because I was worried it would snag on his hand
You should reconsider your life choices
You sound like if a gust of wind blew on you and you weren't properly attired for it, You'd sit in the corner shivering and not do anything about it
@kenanlambo you would eat your dog for half a mill
@@nathelm8693 Not everyone is a whore for money.
As a fellow nerd, I can say this is an impressive collection of nerds and nerdery in this room. It's like the council of elrond for mouth breathers 😂🤣
Hahaha man the mouth breather part made my tummy hurt I laughed so hard. GREAT COMMENT!
The fact you feel you tubers are gods concerns me
@forbiddenfruit6320 Bacon. Sigourney Weaver. Stop signs.
...
I can say non sequiturs too
The guy picking his nose between sleeving- EPIC!
lmao! Not his cards, not his problem XD
The way he fumbles whit the pack before managing to open it is just mindblowing.
Thanks. Seeing an alpha starter opened in this day and age is an extreme rarity event!
My brother worked at a comic book shop years ago. He had a ton of these boxes and packs. I have a shoebox of these unopened boxes of cards. How can a box be worth $100,000 ? Who is buying ? I can sell 20 tonight ? But that’s what they are worth or what someone will pay ?
@@sneakersda2199 they said on ebay bud. are you deaf?
In case you guys didn't know, the cards are centered.
Lol. That’s making lemonade out of lemons.
Yeah seriously repetitive AF 😂
Holy mackerel
What does it mean?
Im 37, with 4 kids.
Always wanted to get into magic.
This video pushed me into learning magic.
Thank you.
wish this was my dads minset he and me are both struggling to find time to even make our decks but its fun to spend time with my dad
I think u will spend less money on drugs or gambling
Play Arena online
magic is amazing. an easy first trick you learn makes all your money disappear.
....what? I feel bad for your kids then.
I think back to the mid 90's and I remember opening my very first MtG 4th Edition starter pack. The look of those old boxes just conjure a whole lot of memories.
Same. With that lovely little rulebook inside too.
Yep, that's around the time I got in. Good times.
'90s Magic was my time. That will always be the Golden Age.
IKR…
The gems, the gem bags, the hopes for some northern paladins or nightmare's to match pics... I snagged a Shivan Drg in mine and later traded it for a mill falcon in the star wars ccg.... aaaah regrets
Rudy can barely contain himself that there’s one less starter in the world lmao
Nahhhh.. i bet he loves it.... his alpha starters gonna go up after this.. less supply !!!!
i thought he opened his years ago and had the cards graded.
@@matthewmiller597 I thought he said that he doesn't grade for alpha, he only buys psa 10s.
@@Manysdugjohn That's literally exactly what the person you replied to said... "barely contain himself" means he is attempting to conceal his clear excitement.
@@Manysdugjohn unlessone day someone be like "whatcha guys watching.... oh wait. those look familiar. yeah my old man got 4 of those stored in basement and sealed up. last saw them few months ago. (everyone im the room goes silent, turns to him and gives a dead ass for real look at him) ....what? did i say something illegal?" whcih there is a chance there is probably someone out there maybe got 5+ boxes of those stored somewhere sealed up.
Some people have slot machines, other have Magic the Gathering. Opening a pack worth 100 000 dollars and then picking cards that doesnt even amount to half of what was payed...great investments.
Legends says you can still hear him saying "It's centered!"
Lmao I had to mute the video. I can only listen to that for so long
Rudy's face when he realized that Alpha starter is worth 100 Gs and the thought in his mind that he have a whole safe of them in 5th level basement of his 4th house/warehouse :D and there's one less in the wild after this video - PRICELESS !!!
hahahahahahaaa so true
Blows my mind that in any reality a pack of cards can be considered to have a value of 100k.
@@dylanfarley8136 A pile of dust can be worth a billion if it happens to be the dust everyone is looking for. We make the value of things in the end
Or that he traded one away for a party pack of tacos.
DUDE SHOULD WAIT WHEN THEYRE 1 MIL EACH
Us 80's kids who played in the early 90's die a little bit when we realize we should of got a safe full of cards and retired on an island 30 years later.
I feel ya. I probably bought about 1k dolalrs worth of magic cards when the game first came out. Have no idea what age i partered ways with them. Its a shame. I remember having a Grinning Totem back in the day and remember that card being talked abotu a lot
No shit.
My brother sold his Magic and comic book collection for about 18 grand about 7 years ago to get money for a down payment on a house.
I remember buying this pack brand-new at my friend's father's card shop during the summer they released. Im still searching for the 3 unopened packs I had😣.
I bet they have cards worth thousands.
Drinking Game: Every time someone says "Center" take a shot.... See you at the hospital soon
im ded
I've opened many of these at my local comic and game shop. Dragons lair in Worcester mass, when magic first dropped. I have all my cards still.
You don’t have to lie to kick it bro just enjoy the video
@@Henley3276 counterspell
@@gbmike1xx565 lol bro what
@@Henley3276 20 point fireball
Incredible! One of the very few times we've seen Rudy's mind blown🤣
Of course Rudy's mind was blown, they just magicked 100k into about 5k
@@zackkelley2940 yeah because that's what these cards are worth once they come back from grading...
@@Frankje01 Well, this cards are going to be worth once graded way more than 5k, but nowhere near 100k.
@@aritzmartinezrodriguez1825 Didn't say they were going to be 100K, I was obviously pointing out how ridiculous it is to say that they are worth 5K. So thanks for adding nothing.
@@Frankje01 You need to work in your anger issues kid.
For context, that guy has opened 3 black lotuses on camera... so he's due for a dud xD amazing video
OMG this common is worth $100!!! Bro, the pack costed 100 grand. That's like getting excited about winning 1 buck off of a hundred dollar scratch off
Its more like winning 10 cents off a hundred dollar scratch off.
Your math is off
he got a lot more than just one common. I wonder if he lost money or gained, PSA will decide his fate
Yeah that guy is stupid, pissed me off the whole time.
Maybe he was just having fun? No, what am I thinking. Money is all that matters.
I love that there’s are lit candles and open sodas in the vicinity….
Thank you for sharing this incredible experience. Very cool.
Nobody likes you
@@moreplease394 I like him, I think you mean nobody likes you
@@moreplease394 I agree
@@jasonmacaro4052 your mom likes me
@@moreplease394 He used to be foul mouthed and a bit... lets call it... different, but his recent content is really good. He also went through a major event in his life that changed him for the better. Give his new content a try and you will see
Every time I hear "Shhhht" when he revealls a new one, all I can think about are the spit particles going all over the cards lol
This may very well be the last time we see an alpha starter being opened. Thanks Dan, you're the best ;-)!
Someone probably has a like 10boxes in their grandma's basement...
It's nice to see such a deep appreciation for MTG cards, especially from Alpha.
I started playing Magic mid-1994 and there was no alpha, beta or unlimited packs available to buy anywhere anymore, only revised. It's amazing that those can still be found sealed up to this day.
Same. True story.
I remember dreaming of having a black lotus alpha because it was like $350 in the magazine, mox emerald ruby etc were like 125 or something. I actually bought an alpha mox emerald at a card shop for a few hundred dollars, then when I moved to Thailand I sold all my cards for like $1000, God was I stupid, I had a handful of alpha and beta cards and a bunch of dark edition I think it was called. Never thought these things would still be around. What can we buy now that will be worth millions or thousands in 40 years? I'm stocking up
@@bradcruise6291 that's normal. I had a full set of dual islands and I sold for like $20 each back in 1999. Magic could be dead today and those cards would be worth nothing, but the game survived even the boom of the internet. Nobody can predict the future, if we could we would buy bitcoin 15 years ago...
So $100k for a starter deck and the worth within is roughly $40k on a some perfect grading?! True collectors right there. Superb.
$60k worth of unpacking experience. :D
Get rekt lol
lmao that's a nice way of putting it.
It is a gamble, get a power 9 and you only lost 30k.
@@OneOfDisease Get a centered Black Lotus, and you made your money back 6 fold with that alone.
There's rarely beauty in this world like that Icy Manipulator. Thank you for sharing this!
They should've priced every card as they revealed them to make the video more interesting.
that would help non experts tbh.... i second this
Even the worst cards in an Alpha pack are worth about $30-40 as collectors items. I think the most valuable card they opened here was Illusionary Mask which goes for maybe $1,500. They definitely lost money by opening this pack. They did not open any of the really top cards. (They highly exaggerated how much value the centering adds to these cards, because there are not that many people willing to pay a premium for a rated 10 quality card that isn't a top rare.)
@@Phyrre56 I got the feeling they couldn't stomach putting values to it having burned £96k 😅
They could buy a Big Mac with the proceeds.
Wow! This brings a lot of memory from better times because back than magic cards were much more affordable than today.
Rudy thinking the entire time "if you just kept it sealed it'd be worth $250,000 in 10 years"
I know for a fact he thinks that LOL! He tells us all the time.
Nah, he hopes every single one except the ones in his bunker will be opened so his are worth a million each in 10 years.
Dying to know when he's actually gonna cash out of magic or if he intends to horde a lot of until he's dead.
@@grinja73 I'm guessing by the time he's 50 he could easily cash out a portion of his collection and it would be an 8 figure payday. Maybe he will pass the rest onto his kids.
@@mrpyro07 I’m thinking 7 figures but yeah its still a lot. Who knows, maybe nerdboys will move on to other things and the value will peak and go down in a decade or so
This makes me sick to think of what I used to have and sold for nothing. Moxes, Arabian nights, Legends, allot from BETA/unlimited, 3 sets of revised, 2 sets of Dark, a stack of multi lands 4 inches high, God knows what it would be worth ugh I'm naseaous
I once swapped 2x dual lands and 2x moxes for a stack of common lands as I couldn't make a deck with what I had.
What's a good place to look up what old cards are worth?
@@dyoel182 cardmarket
Yep i also sold my Collection for about 700 usd. Its Worth about 180000 USD now🤣
@@AGVenge sorry man, I estimated mine about 150k. Oh well it's just money. I tried jumping back in around the Urzas and that was fun but all I could think about was how much the cards kept going up and up and up in value.
I know every magic card alpha to alliances. The feeling I get when I see a shatter or lightning bolt opened. So nostalgic.
Thanks Rudy for catching these always rare openings on video. I show my brother and he loves them as he grew up on alpha and beta and got me into the game years after he quit still with some of these cards! Love it!
i’ve always wondered what $100,000 of old paper looked like
I don’t play magic, never have but I know where to give credit when it’s due. The original magic cards are insane and the massive price tag just shows how coveted they are. Look at this man’s hand shake. I can’t imagine how nervous he was. The suspense 😭
Jesus testicle tuesday watching that plastic come off and the xacto blade shaking was an entire year worth of stress.
If only I knew back then, those things were only $7.95 at shop back in the day
racoon collector made it expensive
Bro we could have been billionaires 🥺
That brought so many memories.....so much early nineties nerdism.
Don’t know any of the values of these cards but it was a pleasure to see you guys all enjoying this moment.
Funny I still have 4 original boxes with the instructions plus all of the cards that came in them, they have been used but still in great shape, I was never rough on cards. Seen quite a few cards they were cheering about in my old collection plus a lot they didn't draw. I remember when the Shivan Dragon was everyone's Holy Grail and I had 2 lol.
Tolerian does vintage booster box game.
Rudy: hold my Timmy
I could not think of a worse pull for the final rare.
Maybe this is reverse psychology and it was a Black Lotus. :D
Animate Wall
@@sagesmukler9383 Incredibly, you are right, the laces are more expensive than the animate wall at this point. At least animate Wall was not printed in Revised so it feels more special.
Can't believe theres a female in that room
big thank you to Dan! he loses money, so we all have fun. makes me glad his beta booster box was the best you could possibly get.
13:50 Rudy is like "Dan...Dan... the children..." XD
I love how you went through the extra effort of wearing non-powdered vinyl gloves and then immediately handed each card to a guy with no gloves to sleeve them. Big brain stuff right there!
If i could go back in time I'd be selling a deck worth a '21 shelby and a fun night out on the vegas strip for a night. It's amazing we get to watch this be opened, thank you alpha.
To think one of those packs would buy me a house where i live and also get me throught univeristy… great opening!
Man, what a flashback! Remembering when it was normal to open them. How long didn’t i see it!!!! Nice
Saw it on the livestream but still great to see it up close like this! There's gonna be sooo many BGS 10s from that starter! Congrats OpenBoosters!
Rudy's look: "Are you FUCKING INSANE?? 100k? And you're opening it?"
Nope Rudy is going well I have a 100 of those at home
That reaction is proof that Rudy is a taco.
@@ghostbuster8894 I’m still kicking myself for not getting a couple cases of alpha booster and decks back in the day
@@brianneudahl3507 At least you were not one of the ones that threw out Alpha cards (literally through them in the trash).
@@ghostbuster8894 worse I sold them to pay for college in 04
Me to my 5 year old son: "hey buddy, check these out, now you can have just one, they're very special so be caref...."
"Cool, thanks dad" as he folds it up and puts it in his top pocket. 🥺
i love how there's both a razor blade and an open flame sitting right there.
I got started in the game during Beta while working in a hobby shop that started carrying the game. I was in High School at the time. In 2001, when my first wife and I got divorced, my entire MtG collection mysteriously disappeared when she left the house - at the time my book value was over $5,000. A small binder of each color plus another for artifacts and another for rare lands. I hadn't played in a couple of years prior to that - mostly made up of my cards from when I started playing.
Random video… I had tons of these cards when I was a kid. I didn’t play magic, I just enjoyed the artwork and the collecting aspect of it. I will never understand why anyone would pay so much money for something so trivial and functionally useless, but I appreciate the enthusiasm and I enjoyed reliving the experience of opening these starter packs. Good memories! My younger brother has most of my old cards now, and I gave a bunch of them away to friends too after I lost interest. This was damn near 30 years ago, and I kind of sharted a bit hearing how much they’re worth now. My 35 year old younger brother still plays regularly and has many shoeboxes full of these cards now.
Take a drink every time they say "perfect centering"
RIP
How about take one after every holy mackerel
"I'm going to the right as well."
Uses gloves to open cards - hands them to someone not wearing gloves.
It is like wearing a mask to enter a restaurant, make 4 steps and take it of when you sit down.
If I was able to open one of these I would want to feel the cardstock with my savage fingertips
It feels like I'm watching 7 different versions of myself hanging out with myselve's!
Man, watching these hurts my soul. I had so many of these cards back when they came out, but I was young and didn't really care. Sold easily a thousand cards for about $20 to a friend when I decided to quit playing. One of those life decisions that my younger self could not comprehend. Let alone knowing they'd be around and sought after decades later.
Ultimately you did the right thing. Holding on to old stuff because it _might_ become valuable to collectors is insane and leads to dying alone surrounded by cobwebbed beanie babies and precious moments figurines. Selling off old toys and shedding the cruft is good for your well-being. For every black lotus card there are a million worthless things people hold on to.
@@joemerino3243 Well said
Use to have so many of these. Wish we knew then what we know now about how valuable they would become
I think every mtg player thinks the same about it, I started in 2000 and think that could have gotten some cards in that moment that right now really far.
Watching that seal on that pack crack was both thrilling and horrifying.
I love the simplicity and the art of these cards.
I am literally more mind blown at the fact that Andy Schrock is in this video than the $100k pack. What a crossover
I realize you posted this comment a year ago, but I just learned Andy has a card channel a week or two ago. Definitely an unexpected crossover.
I feel like Rudy died a little when the plastic seal was broken
i see you everywhere on mtg youtube LOL !!!
@@BalldoTM I love watching this stuff. Glad I got back into MTG in general.
I love how at the end they were all a little bummed by a $700 card compared to the $2,000 one they just pulled haha
@@mro4ts457 but they didn't spend 100,000
@@mro4ts457 They bought that pack when it was released for the original price, Since it's an old pack in mint condition it's now worth 100,000. It's not click bait because it still true that the pack is worth 100,000. They just didn't spend 100,000 to buy the pack.
@@PoggerChamp-jt8dp You're right that it's not clickbait, because the deck has sold for $96,000, but they do sort of gloss over that that's not what they paid for the pack. They're also also well connected enough in the industry to know Heritage Auctions is not the most trustworthy of sources on prices that the average person could actually get.
If my spine twitched with the Alpha Pack, now I just had a Surgical Extraction of my spine watching this
WOW! This is going to be a killer return after grading!
eh, wont get his money back. Waste. Guy must be dying of cancer or something and wants to have fun before he dies. lol
imagine opening this pack with gloves on and handing them to someone who dont have gloves on.. IMAGINE.
if you read the comment you will see that its better without glove... read the comment next time noob
I opened multiple Alpha Starters even without gloves and even without putting them in foil.....1995. :)
I don't have to imagine.
It just happened
Good luck getting these graded right now!
Beckett: " yeah, so maybe, eventually, one day... next year... we'll get around to your cards. Or.... You could give us a grand to think about putting them in this year's stack"
PSA is 10 times worse
The answer: CGC.
Your excitement and enthusiasm is so palpable, a real joy to witness! It hurt the soul when you pulled the lands out of this expensive pack since each land would have cost $1666
Yeah, just eyeballing feels like the value in the end is around 20 K , Someone please correct me if I’m wrong
He waste 80k$
Kind of hard to watch for those of us who used to buy/sell MTG 10+ years ago. $2,000+ for graded Alpha Bolt??? I had a perfect Alpha Howling Mine, sold it for $80, over $2,000 now graded??? I had Power 9, everything else! Congrats to all who kept.
Beautiful cards. Nothing beats these old artworks. Stuff now is so cartoony.
Same man. I sold the bulk of my collection in 2008 to pay bills. I sold my signed unlimited lotus for $700 and thought it was good money! I got $300-500 per mox and like $250 for my mint condition timetwister. I also had over 100 dual lands. Those cards could buy me a really nice house today if I had kept them!!!
Howling mine is a card I use often.. I need to check something..
OpenBoosters wears gloves to prevent fingerprint smudging....proceeds to make wooshing sounds causing spit particles to fall onto the cards
9:47 - 9:51 makes me kick myself even harder because I once had an Alpha Island - like 10 years ago, I was holding it and kinda flicking it in my hand at a train station when an Amtrak train thundered by and blew it out of my hand.
I had like 10,000 bit coin when it was worth nothing..
Ok polar express
@@mrjamba4368 0_o
It's safe to say that Alpha deck was the well centered of attention
Listening to Rudy moan is just great. He knows the value of sealed product and that it's a finite resource, especially something like this. In his mind he just saw tens of thousands of dollars being burned the second the seal was busted.
Cheer up though Rudy. You have to own at least one of those starter packs, so you're just became more valuable because there's one less now.
This is alot of fun though. Collector box openings are cool and all but this is a treat.
Right next to a sink, a candle, an open can of La Croix and a plate of half eaten greasy snacks. Great
That was very fun to watch as someone who started with revised!
I quit when I picked up the set where serra angel was made uncommon. Then found out the value of my cards were shit cu, of reprint
@@jasonluther3567 Serra Angel was always uncommon, starting with Alpha.
@@terryprentice9657 not always uncommon. It was 8th edition printing that threw me off. Was always certain it was rare cuz of 8th.
Same that's exactly when I started.
@@jasonluther3567 I did not know that. I started with The Dark/Revised and stopped playing around the time of Torment. I wasn't buying much Core Set after 6th ("Classic") Edition. I started playing again when Arena came out
Opener, wearing gloves to protect the cards. "Let's hand it to someone not wearing gloves to sleave it up" smh
"yeah we can't grade this a 10 because of the almost invisible fingerprints".... Smh. It doesn't change the value of the card at all my guy. The condition wasn't changed.
To be fair, it's more important for the one holding the deck to be wearing gloves if only one of the two were to wear them. Doesn't make a big difference probably, but holding a deck closely in your hand while excited and nervous about the openening over several minutes could make your hands slightly sweaty, which could effect the cards on the bottom or their edges that you are holding.
@@jq7323 Bro the dude sleeving the cards was also picking his nose.
As someone who understands the value of these cards, I still think the wholesome reaction and excitement was worth every penny of opening this lol
Agreed
Jesus, I remember opening my first pack too. Holy brutal opening.
I love the reactions to earthbind. 2 years ago I bought an alpha earthbind from freaking Amazon for $11. Just $11
Insane
I remember my 1st alpha deck.. it was a xmas gift from my uncle.. cant forget how good it smelled... it was a few bucks back then
I know nothing about this but it’s awesome to hear everyone quake in their boots as they open this pack 😂
I mean, I can tell they're old, simple cards, which means they're long out of print and all, but this channel and this video seem to be more about $$$$ than the game.
awesome video! don't know why I really like watching these alpha openings. i don't even really know how to play Magic, but damn that artwork is amazing on those cards! i feel like if those were blown up paintings, they would sell for a fortune by themselves. very cool
Can't even play magic hahaha? Then sth is wrong with you :-D
Rudy's face after realising that he has around 1,000 of them hanging around in his 6th mansion that he doesn't even rent out but lets his pet Dodo birds roam in.